The disk is preformatted as FAT32 file system, which showed up after we connected it to our PC system.

PowerQuest's Partition Magic found an error, which couldn't be fixed. However the HDD worked perfectly under Windows.

Looking at the device under Windows, we can see some other interesting information:

The label for the HDD is "LITEONFAT" and contains several Folders:

Looking at our first recording (MV_00001), can see its structure:

and below, the "TITLE.VOB" folder contains our recorded file:

The performance of the HDD was then checked with HD Tach and was found to be satisfactory, for a CE device: